My Published Articles About Costus

I have written several articles about the family Costaceae that were published in the quarterly Bulletin of the Heliconia Society International and the Heliconia Society of Puerto Rico. Below are the extracted articles. HSI members can download the full issues in PDF format from www.heliconia.org. More recently I have coauthored several peer reviewed scientific articles as we have been preparing for a full revision of the neotropical Costaceae. Click on the links below to see my publications.

  • Costus of the Golfo Dulce Region, Published in HSI Bulletin, October 2008, Vol. 14 No. 4, pg 1-6
  • How to Identify Costus Species, HSPR Newsletter, March 2009, Vol. 14, No. 1, pg 1-2
  • Will the Real Costus Barbatus PLEASE STAND UP! HSI Bulletin, December 2011, Vol. 17, No. 4, pg 11-14
  • Natural Hybridization in Costus HSI Bulletin, June 2012, Vol. 18, No. 2, pg 1-4
  • Chamaecostus of Cristalino HSI Bulletin, December 2012, Vol. 18, No. 4 pg 6-9
  • Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 1 HSI Bulletin, December 2013, Vol. 19, No. pg 5-9
  • Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 2 HSI Bulletin, March 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1, pg 12-13
  • Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 3 HSI Bulletin, June 2014, Vol. 20, No. 2, pg 13-14
  • Role of Heliconia Society in Conservation HSI Bulletin, December 2014, Vol. 20, No. 4, pg 12-13
  • Heliconia Species List - BGCI and IUCN Status HSI Bulletin, June 2015, Vol. 21, No. 2, pg 4-7
  • Costus zamoranus: An endemic species... HSI Bulletin, September 2015, Vol. 21, No. 3, pg 4-9
  • Search for the Mysterious Lost Plant (Costus vinosus) HSI Bulletin, September 2016, Vol. 22, No. 3, pg 1-3
  • Ornamental Costus Published in Ornamental Horticulture, CAMPINAS-SP | V. 22, No. 3, 2016, p. 307-317
  • Following Ruiz (Costus laevis) HSI Bulletin, December 2016, Vol. 22, No. 4, pg 7-14
  • Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 4 HSI Bulletin, September 2017, Vol. 23, No. 3, pg 5-7
  • A Tale of Two Costus (Costus sepacuitensis) and Costus cupreifolius) HSI Bulletin, March 2019, Vol. 25, No. 1, pg 1-3
  • Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 5 HSI Bulletin, September 2019, Vol. 25, No. 3, pg 11-12
  • Member Profile and Costaceae Cultivar Registry, Part 6 HSI Bulletin, December 2019, Vol. 25, No. 4, pg 7-8
  • The Search for Costus juruanus HSI Bulletin, March 2020, Vol. 26, No. 1, pg 1-8
  • Unraveling the Spiraling Radiation: A Phylogenomic Analysis of Neotropical Costus L, Eugenio Valderrama et al, Frontiers in Plant Science, August 14, 2020, Vol. 11,
  • Propagation of Costaceae by Seeds HSI Bulletin, March 2021, Vol. 27, No. 1, pg 10-12
  • Global Plant Name Data for Zingiberales HSI Bulletin, September 2021, Vol. 27, No. 3, pg 1-6
  • The genetic mechanisms underlying the convergent evolution of pollination syndromes in the Neotropical radiation of Costus L., Eugenio Valderrama et al, Frontiers in Plant Science, September 8, 2022, Vol. 13,
  • Back to the Tropics HSI Bulletin, June 2022, Vol. 28, No. 2, pg 10-12

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